The Issue That Could Make a Third Party Matter: Social Security Is Dying and Nobody in Washington Will Save It

Independent Political Report ^ | December 5, 2025 | Todd Hagopian

[MinorityRepublican]

Republicans won’t touch it because they remember what happened to George W. Bush.

Correct. We shouldn't talk about it. We'll just have to deal with it later.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...The trust fund runs dry...”
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There is no “trust fund”.

[PGR88]

The “easy” political solution to this, and ALL government overspending, will be more debt, and more debt-monetization and money printing by the Federal Reserve.

Inflation will need to grow faster than government liabilities.

You will set your Soc. Sec. check, but it won’t buy much.

[Nateman]

The solution is a Convention Of States.

[dadgum]

Aaaaaand, in the interim, inflation will continue to destroy the value of the dollar, PLUS, the annual “COLA” adjustment will be eaten up by increase of the premiums for Medicare.

The Seniors are going to continue to get screwed.
We paid into the system.
We were promised a return.
We were lied to.

$$$ for illegals.
$$$ for indigents.
$$$ for ghettopotamus welfare Kweenz.
$$$ for lazy jackasses.

[ASOC]

You don’t pay in, you don’t get any pay out.

Period, no exceptions.

How hard is this to understand.

[Red Badger]

Get rid of the illegals getting benefits, and the fraudsters getting disability and ‘crazy checks’...................

[cherry]

They do not care because they have their own pension system and their own health care plan...make them rely on SS and Medicare like the rest of us slobs...

abolish the two party system and let's vote for the man not the party.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Then, for starters, no income taxes on my IRA distributions and eliminate the RMD.

[antceecee]

Yes. It is really quite simple!

[Cold Heart]

Use tariff money

[Beowulf9]

I’ll take ‘Things that won’t happen’ for $500, Alex.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Trump accounts will be the answer long term but it will be too late.

[KarlInOhio]

One “problem” with the Australian superannuation plan and this plan is that the payment is proportional to the amount put in. One of the principles of Social Security is the disproportional payment: If you make half the yearly taxable maximum every year of your career, you will get about 2/3 of the payment of someone who made the taxable maximum every year instead of just half. The left will howl at the idea of someone getting out what they put in.

[Java4Jay]

Disability payments come out of SS trust fund.

[Captain Peter Blood]

SS can be saved, it’s Medicare and Medicaid spending that is destroying the country.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

How can we possibly save Social Security when we have to funnel billions to Somalian America
haters, Desert Storms, EBT grifters, Section 8 layabouts. Big Mama ghetto welfare queens.
Diseased homosexuals and other deviants. Illegal aliens. Uppity cotton pickers. Lockheed, Martin
Marietta, Boeing, Fairchild. Honeywell. Litton. Raytheon.

Social Security recipients need to get in line behind the deserving pros.

[SandwicheGuy]

You don’t pay in, you don’t get any pay out. Period, no exceptions. How hard is this to understand.

A prophet is a pariah in his own land, or something like that. Most would agree with you, I would.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

When my father was dying a few years ago, I looked over his bills, and the hospital was charging
him $5 per asprin. Of course each one comes wrapped in cardboard and plastic. No large bottles
of Equate™ aspirin here!